Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scomberesox saurus

Atlantic saury

WoRMS 126392ITIS 165612GBIF 2369272key worms:126392

2026-08-05: itis_id 165612 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · seung9park · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oryzias latipes

Atlantic saury50 cm

bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Scomberesox saurus — Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Atlantic saury is a fish of the family Scomberesocidae found in the North Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada south to Bermuda and North Carolina in the western Atlantic and from Iceland to Morocco in the eastern Atlantic, it is also found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Aegean…W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 2006, as larva.R

19
observations: 19
records: 19
sampling events: 1999–2006
years: 1
datasets: larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ichthyoplankton 19 obs · 19 events · 1999–2006 · larva
name used: Scomberesox saurus Atlantic saury · code 191

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126392%22

Scomberesox saurus

How big is itiEvery mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it
i
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.